How to Make a Snare

[Rockgod1619]

Great post Rick, thanks for the pics, as well as the information!

[maker_of_fire]

will the double loop work on cordage no wire

[Rick]

I've actually never used cordage for a snare. The problem in doing that is the animal may be able to chew through it. That's why you never see anything but chain or steel cable on the larger ones.

And, while we're at it...how about snaring your way over to our introduction section and tell us a bit about yourself?

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ead.php?t=7813

[Dennis]

Thanks Rick.

[welderguy]

Great info thanks Rick

[jcullen24]

I know this is an old post, but it's a great one. I had not known about the double loop.

Thanks again!

[Wildthang]

Good post Rickster! I will never forget the double loop method!

[jake abraham]

thanks Rick

[Winter]

I've never heard about that technique, thanks Rick. All my planned survival snares are gonna be spring snares with braided fishing line as the snare with a modded figure 4 trigger.

Can they escape if they are hanging above the ground?

Said snare setup.
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[Rick]

Won't have much wiggle left in 'em. A spring snares works on most stuff 'cept earthworms. They hang on roots and stuff real tight. They got a pretty good grip. I once saw a Nightcrawler pull a Robin underground. Never did see that bird again. They say you can hear him whistle late a night when the wind is still but I think it's an old wives tale.

[Winter]

Is that sarcasm?

I'm not up on trapping and I'm making assumptions I hoped you would critique.

[Rick]

Uh, yeah. That would be sarcasm.

Nothing at all wrong with a spring trap. I've never made anything that sophisticated. My snares have been for squirrel or rabbit and I go for a neck grab rather than a foot hold. Doesn't that trap limit you to one direction of travel, from bottom of picture to top? And you have the problem the animal may still be alive?

I've always set mine with the loop vertical so they can walk into it from either direction. The trigger I've used is pretty simple. Like this one.

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[randyt]

I set my snares as a blind set in a bottleneck. I make my snares like Ricks except my method of construction is different. I also leave a little tail of wire about 3/4" long up by the double loop. This tail can get tangled in the fur and help lock the snare so to speak.

wanted to add that I don't use triggers or spring poles on my snares. Trolling wire for small animals and thompson locking snares for large game. If I make a trigger it's for a deadfall rather than a snare.

[Rick]

I have a couple of sizes of Thompson snares but have yet to use them. I got them as an emergency fall back. You talked about leaving the tail of wire in another thread and I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder.

[Winter]

That makes sense. I guess y snare is less a snare and more of a trap. The end of the trigger stick would be baited.

I reckon I need to learn ore about this trapping business, but, like SD, it doesn't sound like fun at all.

[Rick]

Here we can hunt squirrel with any method. There are no restrictions. I'm not one to go out and kill stuff just to test my skills. That seems a bit egotistical to me. But when squirrel hunting it's perfectly legal. I use squirrel poles, too.

[randyt]

that tail really helps. The last rabbit I snared, I had a heck of a time pulling the tail out of the fur. I doubt a tail would be necessary for squirrels. The snare would be on a slant pole and gravity would work in my favour. If I didn't have locking cable snares for larger game I would probably use a spring pole or weight along with a trigger but still set it as a blind set. In my opinion trapping is a awesome energy multiplier. Lots of potential for payback. Like all things though ya gotta do it to own the skill.

[Stairman]

I dont bother double looping for twitch ups but definetely for stationary sets.

[Thaddius Bickerton]

Hey Rick, good post.

I want to add something I do and I don't have my camera (I dropped it into the lake last week fishing lol have to start hunting yard sales for a new / old one again i guess)

I take the doubled end and open it up into sort of an "L" bit more or less depending on the wire. That way when it slips closed it is less likely to slide back open.

I have seen a bent penny with a hole at 12 and 6 oclock used as a "lock" also.

I will set about 6 snares at one end of a meadow and then walk the meadow and usually run a rabbit into one of them. Had them sort of stop and stand still and it loosen up so I started bending them that way.

Of course if you are pressing rabbits just right they almost die as they hit the snare, I almost think they have a heart attack.

But I found your pics did a great job showing how I set up except for the bend at the end.

I don't want to sound all know it all an such, just wanted to add what works for me.

Thad.

[Rick]

That's how we learn, Thad. Sharing 'round the campfire. That's the reason I posted. I don't know it all either. Just a smidgen about a lot of different things.